Author Topic: Trench and fort inspiration (Read 1848 times)

shadowbeast · « **on:** 05 March 2025, 08:41:18 AM »

A Victorian fort:

DSCN3687 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr
The best images of a trench I could make my camera get:

DSCN3662 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr

DSCN3672 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr

DSCN3674 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr

DSCN3676 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr

DSCN3680 by Daniel Broomhall, on Flickr
The tunnel images turned out better...

fred · « **Reply #1 on:** 06 March 2025, 07:54:41 PM »

Cool stuff - where are these, a museum I assume?

shadowbeast · « **Reply #2 on:** 07 March 2025, 01:58:03 PM »

Army Museum of North Queensland.

fred · « **Reply #3 on:** 07 March 2025, 02:33:24 PM »

Ta. Is that were the original of the fort is/was too?

The_Beast · « **Reply #4 on:** 07 March 2025, 08:49:33 PM »

Reminded me of a visit to the WWI museum in Kansas City. I envy you getting to visit yours!

Fires the imagination, even without the mud and lice.

Doug

carlos marighela · « **Reply #5 on:** 07 March 2025, 10:53:45 PM »

If you get down to Melbourne you can see some better examples, some with the original guns still in place. It's often forgotten that at one point Port Phillip Bay was the most heavily defended harbour in the southern hemisphere with around seven forts or major batteries dotted around the bay. The four largest: Fort Nepean, Fort Queenscliff, Swan Island and South Channel Fort controlling access to the bay.

You'll get some further inspiration from the following sites.

Fort Queesncliff:

https://fortqueenscliff.com.au/ or you could do the virtual tour.

https://fortqueenscliff.com.au/virtual-tour/

https://fortqueenscliff.com.au/tour-support-photos/

And across the heads you have Fort Nepean the most important of the lot:

https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/places-to-see/parks/point-nepean-national-park/attractions/fort-nepean

South Channel Fort:

https://www.mhhv.org.au/south-channel-fort-part-1-1876-1882-by-keith-quinton/

https://www.mhhv.org.au/south-channel-fort-part-2-1883-1893-by-keith-quinton/
https://www.mhhv.org.au/fort-nepean-understanding-the-trace-part-3-point-nepean-battery-development-1885-1887/

Nice aerial view of what it looks like today

https://mycoastline.com.au/visitor-guide/activities/attractions/south-channel-fort/

Fort Gellibrand at Willamstown at the tp of the bay.

https://www.mhhv.org.au/fort-gellibrand/

https://www.mhhv.org.au/fort-gellibrand-understanding-the-trace/

Fort Franklin at Portsea (a sort of backstop for the South Channel Fort)

https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/125262

For completeness sake there was another battery at Sandridge (South Melbourne) now long gone.

https://www.middleparkandalbertparkhistory.org.au/battery

shadowbeast · « **Reply #6 on:** 08 March 2025, 07:38:09 AM »

Quote from: fred on 07 March 2025, 02:33:24 PM

Ta. Is that were the original of the fort is/was too?

It's within the grounds (the old museum used to be IN the fort, until Jezzine Barracks was closed and became a public park.)

That last one was in Fremantle, WA.

shadowbeast · « **Reply #7 on:** 08 March 2025, 08:00:59 AM »

We have no other pre-WW2 forts around my way. A drill hall, store and commandant's house; but nothing else. One now-demolished ruin on Palm Island, and one on Magazine Island, which does not exist.